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Calendar No. 173. 

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MAJ. GEN. ENOCH II. CROWDER. 



September 22. 1919. — Ordered to be printed. 



Mr. Knox, from the. Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the 

following 

REPORT. 

[To accompany S. 2867.] 

The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the bill 
(S. 2867) to authorize the President, when Ma]. Gen. Crowder re- 
tires, to place him on the retired list of the Army as a lieutenant 
general, ha vino- had the same under consideration, report favorably 
thereon with amendments, with the recommendation that the bill as 
so amended do pass. 

Your committee recommend, in line 11 of page 1, to strike out the 
words "and emoluments'' and insert in the same line following the 
word "grade" the words "as fixed by section 24 of the act of Con- 
gress approved July 15, 1870." 

The purpose of the bill is to recognize the exceptional service ren- 
dered by Gen. Crowder in the preparation and administration of 
the selective-draft act, and the amendment proposed by your com- 
mittee makes it plain that he is to receive the retired pay commensu- 
rate with the rank which will be conferred. Your committee be- 
lieves that the recognition extended in this bill is but just and be- 
lieves that it should become law. The Secretary of War approves 
the hill in a letter which is printed below, together with a memoran- 
dum from The Adjutant General giving in full the general's military 
record. 



War Department, 
Washington, September J. i'jiv. 

My Deab Senatob Wadswoeth : The clerk of the Senate Military Affairs Com- 
mittee lias brought tn my at tent ion Senate bill 2SGT, by Mr. Knox, "To authorize 
the President, when Maj. Gen. Crowder retires, to place him on the retired 
list of the Army as a lieutenant general." 

I heu' leave to inclose herewith a copy of the record of Gen. Crowder from 
September 1, 1S77, when he entered the United States Military Academy as a 
cadet to the present date. It would be idle for me t<> attempt to illustrate a 
record of service so long, so zealous, and s<> distinguished. 

My own eontad with (Jen. Crowder, of course, began when I became Secre- 
tary of War in March, 101(5, from which time until America's entry into the 



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World War he continued actively in charge of the duties of Judge Advocate 
General and was in daily conference with me about difficult legal problems. I 

I hen conceived an admiration, which has daily increased, for his great range of 
knowledge and experience in questions of law, military and civil, and the de- 
tailed history of the Military Establishment of the United States. In 1917 
Gen. Crowder prepared, in consultation with me, the selective-service law, and 
I appointed him Provost Marshal General to execute that law, a service delicate 
and intricate, requiring the institution of nation-wide machinery which would 
function harmoniously and with such visible and obvious justice as to commend 
both the law and its execution to public favor. This service he performed with 
conspicuous ability, and it is one of the outstanding features of America's mili- 
tary mobilization that, although we resorted to conscription, there is a general 
concensus of opinion to the effect that the law was executed without tear or 
favor, and that justice and wisdom characterized its interpretations and appli- 
cations. 

I am very happy to he able to assure the committee of my belief that the 
services rendered by Gen. Crowder merit the recognition of Congress, and the 
bill proposed by Mr. Knox seems to me a suitable reward for a great service 
rendered self-sacriflcingly by a soldier as the latest act of a life devoted to the 
service of his country. 
Cordially, yours, 

Newton D. Baker, 

Secretary of War. 
Hon. James W. Wads worth, Jr., 

Chairman Committee on Military Affairs, 

I nited States; Senate. 



War Department, 
The Adjutant General's Office. 

Statement of the military service of Enoch H. Crowder: Cadet United States 
Military Academy. September 1, 1S77 ; second lieutenant Eighth Cavalry, June 
11, 1881; first lieutenant, July 5, 1886; major, judge advocate, January 11, 
1S95 ; accepted, January 24, 1895; lieutenant colonel, judge advocate, June 22, 
189S; accepted, June 24, 189S ; vacated, August 18, 1899; lieutenant colonel 
Thirty-ninth United States Infantry, August 17, 1899 ; accepted, August 18, 
1899; honorably discharged, May 6, 1901; lieutenant colonel, judge advocate, 
May 21, 1901 ; brigadier general, June 20, 1901 ; accepted, June 21, 1901 ; hon- 
orably discharged, June 30, 1901; colonel, judge advocate, April 16, 1903; briga- 
dier general, Judge Advocate General (act Feb. 2, 1901), February 15, 1911; 
accepted, February 15, 1911; major general, October 6. 1917. 

Served on frontier duty at Fort Brown, Tex., September 29 to October 30, 
1881 ; Santa Maria. Tex., to December 28, 1881 ; Fort Brown, Tex., to April 1, 
1882; Santa Maria, Tex., to June 2. 1882; and Fort Brown, Tex., to July 21, 
1884 ; on leave of absence to October 1, 1884 ; on duty at Jefferson Barracks, 
Mo., to June 30, 1885 ; as professor of military science and tactics at the Univer- 
sity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., to July 23, 1886 ; scouting in New Mexico to 
October 7, 1886; as professor of military science and tactics at the University 
of Missouri, Columbia. Mo., October 11, 1886, to September 1, 1889; and on 
frontier duty at Fort Yates, N. Dak., to April 19, 1891 ; captain and acting 
judge advocate, Headquarters Department of Platte, from April 21, 1891, to 
January 11, 1895 ; at Omaha, judge advocate, Department of Platte, until March 
13, 1898 ; at same place, judge advocate, Department of Missouri, to April 17, 
1898 ; judge advocate, First Independent Division and Fourth Army Corps, 
Mobile, Ala.. April 17 to May 22, 1898; judge advocate, Expeditionary Forces, 
May 28 to June 23, 1898 ; judge advocate Department of Pacific and Eighth 
Army Corps, June 23, 1898, to June 3, 1899 ; associate justice Supreme Court. 

Philippine Islands, May 29, 1899, to ; detached service, Iloilo, P. I., with 

verbal instructions from corps commander, December 26, 1S98, to January 8, 
1899; member of commission to determine capitulation of Manila and Spanish 
army, August 14, 1S9S ; commissioner to treat with commission appointed by 
Gen. A.cuinaldo, January 9 to February 1, 1899 ; commissioner to receive records 
of Royal Spanish court at Manila, April 17 to June 26, 1899 ; president Board 
of Claims, Philippine Islands, April 18 to ; special duty, law depart- 
ment military governor's office in the Philippines, June 4, 1S99, to November, 
1901 ; on commission to receive surrender of Manila, and as judge advocate, 
Department of the Pacific and Eighth Army Coi-ps ; judge advocate, Philippine 

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MAJ. GEN. ENOCH H. CROWDER. 3 

Division; associate justice of the Supreme Court (civil branch) : Legal adviser 
and secretary to the military governor; presidenl Board of War Claims; on 
board of officers for conference with commissioners of Aguinaldo; on board of 
officers for revision of customs, tariff, and regulations, Philippine islands; coun- 
sel for the Government, 1902, in the Deming case in the United states Circuil 
Courl and circuit dun of Appeals, and on appeal therefrom to the Supreme 
Court of the United States; assigned to the General Staff, August L5, 1903; 
detached for dut.\ in L904; as observer with the armies of Japan, being with 
the Firsl Army of Kuioki, from May l.~>, P.MM, to A[iril 1, 1<H)5 ; returned to 
duty with the General Staff, War Department, and served as Acting .indue 
Advocate General from May 16 to September 7, 1906; was assigned as chief 

Of Staff, Atlantic Division, September 21, 1906, and shortly thereafter was 

detailed for duty with the Provisional Government of Cuba, serving as legal 
adviser io the Provisional Covormnent since October 2, 1906; supervisor of the 
Department of State and Justice since that date; president of the Advisory 
CommissiOD since January .">, 1907; and in charge of the electoral administra- 
tion in Cuba since April 1, L908; returned to the United States from Cuba 
February 'J., 1909, and thereafter on duty in the Cilice of the Judge Advocate 
General, Washington, l>. C until .June 16, 1909; judge advocate. Department 
of California, from .Inly 2."> to October 22, L909; and on duty as assistant to 
Judge Advocate General, United States Army; appointed delegate to fourth 
Pan American Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 5, 1910; in the Office 
of the Judge Advocate General, Washington, D. C, to March, 1919 (Judge 
Advocate General of the Army from February 15, 1911); detailed as Provost 
Marshal General in General Orders, No. 65, War Department, May 22, 1917, to 
July L5, 1919, the functions of that office having terminated ; reappointed 
Judge Advocate General of the Army February 15, 1919; detailed as special 
representative of the United States to assist in the revision of Cuban electoral 
laws. March, lf)P>, and was relieved from that duty on completion of same, 
August 15, 1919; in Washington, D. C, to date. 

By direction of the President, awarded distinguished-service medal for espe- 
cially meritorious and conspicuous service as Provost Marshal General in the 
preparation and operation of the draft laws of the Nation during the war, by 
Genera] order No. 144, War Department, December, 191S. 

P. C. Harris, 
The Adjutant General. 

September 3, 1919. 

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